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Containing satiric and barbed commentary, they were primarily intended to make his students and the public conversant with French, though some of the pieces were also in [[Dutch]] (''[[Myn Ouwe Snoek in de Pekel]]'') and English (''[[Paddiscordion]]'').
 
Containing satiric and barbed commentary, they were primarily intended to make his students and the public conversant with French, though some of the pieces were also in [[Dutch]] (''[[Myn Ouwe Snoek in de Pekel]]'') and English (''[[Paddiscordion]]'').
  
No record of performances have been found, though they most probably were performed on occasion.  
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No record of performances have been found, though they most probably were performed by amateurs or school children on occasion.  
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 06:42, 5 August 2016

The Bluettes Franco-Nataliennes is series of monthly publications by C.E.Boniface

Written (1846-1849*??) in verse and prose and in dramatic form and including songs and music, F.C.L. Bosman (1928) also has the series title as De Natal Bluetts Dutch), The Natal Bluetts or The Natal Bluettes (the latter two English, cited from William Groom, 1899 p. 479).

Containing satiric and barbed commentary, they were primarily intended to make his students and the public conversant with French, though some of the pieces were also in Dutch (Myn Ouwe Snoek in de Pekel) and English (Paddiscordion).

No record of performances have been found, though they most probably were performed by amateurs or school children on occasion.

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [1]: pp. 121, 124, 269, 496

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